How to Edit Related Lists in Salesforce Without Losing Your Mind
Written by
Peter Gascoyne
September 11, 2025
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If you’ve ever found yourself shouting at your screen while clicking into record after record just to update a single field, you're not alone. Despite all its flexibility, Salesforce still leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to editing related lists efficiently.
Related Lists in Salesforce: Still a Headache
If you’ve ever found yourself shouting at your screen while clicking into record after record just to update a single field, you're not alone. Despite all its flexibility, Salesforce still leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to editing related lists efficiently.
We’ve spoken to dozens of Admins, SalesOps leaders, and RevOps pros, and the story is the same: it’s frustrating, time-consuming, and ultimately costs your business money.
In this post, we’ll explore why related list editing is still a challenge in 2025, the most common workarounds teams try, and the smarter way forward.
The Problem: Related List Editing in Salesforce Is Clunky
Out of the box, Salesforce lets you view related records easily. But editing them? That’s a different story.
The default related list views don’t support:
- Inline editing
- Multi-record updates
- Bulk actions
- Editable filters or sorting
So users end up:
- Clicking into each record one by one
- Opening multiple tabs
- Losing context of the parent record
- Wasting time on repetitive admin
This not only kills productivity, but also leads to skipped updates, data errors, and frustrated teams. According to a 2024 Salesforce Community Survey, 61% of admins cite related list limitations as a top UX blocker.
A Modern Alternative: Editable Grids
RavenApps Grids is a Salesforce-native solution built to solve this exact issue. With Grids, your users can:
✅ Inline edit any related list directly from one screen
✅ Mass update 10s–100s of records with a few clicks
✅ Use filters, sparklines, and conditional formatting to spot errors fast
✅ Create new child records inline,no modal hopping required
"With Grids, our sales team saves 4–6 hours per week just updating order lines. It’s like spreadsheets… but inside Salesforce"
RevOps Lead, SaaS scaleup
Use Case: Updating Opportunity Products at Scale
Let’s say your team needs to apply a price uplift to certain product SKUs across open Opportunities:
- Filter by product name and opportunity stage.
- Select all relevant records.
- Apply a percentage increase via bulk update.
- Save,done in under 30 seconds.
- No flow building. No Apex. No CSV imports.
FAQ: Related List Editing in Salesforce
Q: Can I enable native related list editing in Salesforce?
A: Not at this time. Salesforce does not support native inline editing on related lists.
Q: Is mass update functionality supported natively?
A: Only for limited objects/fields through list views, and not for related lists.
Q: What’s the benefit of using a native app like Grids vs. custom LWC?
A: Grids is secure, low-code, and scalable. Custom LWCs take dev time and require maintenance.
Q: Is Grids secure?
A: Yes. It’s a 100% Salesforce-native app with no data leaving your org
Who Benefits the Most?
If you're in:
- Sales Ops updating product lines
- Customer Success renewing contracts
- Finance managing pricing adjustments
- RevOps keeping opportunity data clean
…you’re probably already wasting hours each week doing this the hard way.
Salesforce is powerful, but not always easy. If you’re still editing related records one click at a time, there’s a better, faster, and less sanity-threatening way.
Start with a smarter grid view.
Start with Grids by RavenApps.
Your first two Grids are free to try. Build one today and see what you’ve been missing.
Try Grids today or schedule a live demo with our team
